Gold For Salt

Emperor of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali on July 25, 2010

http://africa.mrdonn.org/goldandsalt.html

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File:Salt selling Mopti Mali.jpg

History of Timbuktu
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/1492/1492_timbuktu.cfm

Image of West Africa 1350

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